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WPFO
WPFO is a Fox-affiliated television station whose signal covers southern Maine and northern New Hampshire; it is licensed to Waterville, Maine. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 23 from a transmitter on Oak Hill in Litchfield near the Androscoggin-Kennebec county line. Owned by Corporate Media Consultants Group (itself 51% owned by Power Television International and 49% owned by Max Media), the station is operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of WGME-TV. WPFO's studios are co-located with WGME at Northport Business Park in Portland, Maine. Syndicated programming on WPFO includes: ''Two and a Half Men'', ''The Office'', and ''Seinfeld''.
==History==
The station began broadcasting on August 27, 1999 as WMPX-TV and was a Pax (now Ion Television) affiliate owned by Paxson Communications. Paxson sold the channel in December 2002 to Corporate Media Consultants Group who changed the call sign to the current WPFO. The new calls reflected an affiliation change to Fox, which took place in April 2003, filling a gap created in Fall 2001 when WPXT switched to The WB. In July 2007, this station debuted a new logo and updated website. The website's design was outsourced to Fox Interactive Media which also develops websites for Fox's owned-and-operated stations. WPFO switched website providers to Broadcast Interactive Media in March 2010. Currently WPFO's website provider is worldnow.
From its sign-on until April 12, 2003, the station was branded on-air as "Pax 23". In addition to Pax programming, WMPX carried a small amount of local programming. As WPFO in addition to Fox prime time, sports, and syndicated programming, the station produces and airs local paid programming under the titles ''Fox 23 Lifestyle'' and ''Your Hometown''. It was announced by the Maine Lottery on April 16, 2010 that starting May 11 WPFO would begin airing the Mega Millions lottery drawings Tuesday and Friday nights at 11 following the hour long 10 o'clock newscast. Maine joined the Mega Millions lottery on May 9 starting ticket sales on that date.
On October 31, 2013, Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the non-license assets of WPFO from Corporate Media Consultants Group for $13.6 million; the deal made it a sister station to WGME-TV, which already produced a newscast for the station. On November 20, it was announced that Cunningham Broadcasting will acquire the license assets for $3.4 million. 〔(Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License ), Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 20 November, 2013〕 The sale of the license assets remains pending.
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